Ornette!

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Ornette!
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Studio album by
Ornette Coleman
ReleasedFebruary 1962 (1962-02)[1][2]
RecordedJanuary 31, 1961
GenreFree jazz
Avant-garde jazz
Length43:49
LabelAtlantic 1378
Ornette Coleman chronology
Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation
(1961) 		Ornette!
(1962) 		Ornette on Tenor
(1961)

Ornette! is the seventh album by alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released in February 1962 on Atlantic Records.[1][2] The album features Scott LaFaro in place of Charlie Haden, who had left the Quartet but would work again with Coleman in the future.

The recording session took place on January 31, 1961, at Atlantic Studios in New York City. Three outtakes from the session, "Proof Readers," "Check Up," and "The Alchemy of Scott LaFaro" would later appear respectively on the 1993 box set Beauty Is A Rare Thing, and on 1970s compilations Twins and The Art of the Improvisers.

The titles of the compositions are initialisms derived from works by Sigmund Freud: Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious, Totem and Taboo, Civilization and its Discontents, and the essay Relation of the Poet to Day Dreaming.[3]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Down Beat4.5/5 stars[4]
Allmusic4/5 stars[5]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings3/4 stars [6]
Tom HullA–[7]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Side one[]

No.TitleLength
1."W.R.U."16:25
2."T. & T."4:35

Side two[]

No.TitleLength
1."C. & D."13:10
2."R.P.D.D."9:39

Personnel[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (24 February 1962). "February LP Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc., NY. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Editorial Staff, Billboard (24 February 1962). "Ornette!". Billboard Music Week. The Billboard Publishing Co. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  3. ^ Brian Olewnick, "Review: Ornette!", AllMusic. Retrieved May 31, 2011.
  4. ^ Down Beat: May 24, 1962 vol. 29, no. 11
  5. ^ Allmusic review
  6. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 274. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  7. ^ Hull, Tom (n.d.). "Jazz (1940–50s) (Reference)". tomhull.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.


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